County: Wexford Site name: Courtlands East, Mayglass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 20E0323
Author: Margaret McCarthy, ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 701577m, N 611680m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.247458, -6.512444
An application to Wexford County Council to construct a single dwelling house in Courtlands East townland, Mayglass led to a request for further information on the grounds that the proposed development is in close proximity to two levelled ringforts (WX047-168 and WX047-134). A test excavation and a geophysical survey were carried out as part of the archaeological impact assessment. One of the monuments (WX047-168) is located to the south-west of the proposed development site, the other (WX047-134) is in lands some 40m east-north-east of the site boundary. Both monuments have no surface expression as they were discovered through aerial photography in 1996.
Seven test trenches were placed in those areas of the application area that will be subject to maximum ground disturbance and where the geophysical survey identified features of potential archaeological interest. The north-east circuit of a single ditched enclosure (WX047-168) was detected through geophysical survey extending into the south-west corner of the application area and the development has been designed to avoid this monument. The test excavation identified a modern drainage feature in the north-west corner of the proposed development site but no features of archaeological significance were exposed.
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